serue thee for a veile of thine eyes to al that are with thee, and whithersoeuer thou shalt goe, remember also thou wast taken. 17And Abraham praying, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bare children: for our Lord had closed vp euerie matrice of the house of Abimelech for Sara Abrahams wife.
CHAP. XXI.
The first part of this booke.
Of the progenie and other blessings of Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob.AND our Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled the things which he spake. 2And she conceiued & bare a sonne in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her. 3And Abraham called the name of his sonne, which Sara bare him, [1] Isaac: 4and he circumcised him the eight day, as God had commanded him, 5when he was an hundred yeares old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac borne. 6And Sara said: Laughter God hath made to me: whosoeuer shal heare of it, wil laugh with me. 7And againe she said: Who that shal heare of it would belieue Abraham, that Sara gaue sucke to a sonne, which she bare him now being an old man? 8The child therfore grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast in the day of his weaning. 9And when Sara had seen the sonne of Agar the Ægyptian playing with Isaac her sonne, she said to Abraham: 10Cast out this handmaid, & her sonne: for the sonne of the handmaid shal not be heire with my sonne Isaac. 11Abraham tooke this grieuously for his sonne: 12To whom God said: ″ Let it not seem grieuous to thee for the boy, and for thy handmaid: al things that Sara shal say to thee, heare her voice: because [2] in Isaac shal seed be called to thee. Rom. 9.
Heb. 11.13But the sonne also of the handmaid I wil make into a great nation, because he is thy seed. 14Abraham therfore rose vp in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it vpon her shoulder, and deliuered the boy and dismist her. Who went away, and wandred in the wildernesse of Bersabee. 15And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy vnder one of the trees that were there. 16And she went her way, and sate ouer against a great way off as farre as a bow can cast, for she said: I wil not see the child dying: and sitting ouer against, she lifted vp her voice and wept. 17And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called Agar from heauen, saying: What doest thou Agar? feare not; for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherin he is. 18Arise, take vp the boy, & hold his hand: for into
